DARIEN, Conn. Holocaust survivor Anita Schorr shared her experiences as a young girl with Darien students when she visited Middlesex Middle School's seventh-grade class.
Schorr, who now lives in Westport, was eight years old when the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia. They began instituting oppressive new rules, such as forcing her to wear a yellow Star of David on her clothes and not letting her attend school.
When she was almost 11 she and her family were sent to the Terezin concentration camp, and later to Auschwitz, where her mother and younger brother died in the gas chambers. She sruvived a work camp and endured six weeks in the Bergen-Belsen camp until the Allies won the war and she was freed. She was 15-years-old and the only surviving member of her family.
She told the students that she was sharing her story so that they will learn to "guard their freedom and the freedom of others." She said that Hitler was the biggest bully in history, and urged the students to treat each other with respect, and not to stand by and let bullying occur without saying or doing something.
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